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The Georgia! Enterprise.
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VOUJMU XXIII.
Lull,AM) ITEMS.
Lobjpss. sad, pleasant
r* and terrible.
I tbial. FlUMllllfiM— TM EXCURSION
r , M .jt a 11-ROAD ACCIDKNT*iOI€IDEB
P , rriiiN- -COTTON HKPORTS,ETC.
|gKAI-‘ ' 1
AlnbAinN.
L jcvoial weeks a baud of despera
r I,'nc been operating iu the lower
[Hunt county. East Sunday they
r. „ , hutch where services were be
fw,l inn out the congregation,
L| „v,. r the pulpit and broke the
L wso f the church. They have de-
Ld considerable private property,
[• tv „nd have served several citi
[ w ;th wr.tten notices to leave the
L lv a t once or they will be killed.
I simtbbound train from Montgomery
t li i went through a small bridge, a
L north of Tensas. The engine, uag-
L postal and two passenger cars, and
[sleeper, became a total wreck. En-
L John Morgan, Fireman Sam
ferns, and two tramps were killed;
n \gent Davis, dangerously hurt;
Law Master Taylor and four passen
ferc"slightly hurt. The bridge was
L small stream and was undermined
ilif heavy rains.
B. , .tortn on Wednesday, at Mobile,
■at ti nes approaching a deluge, was
■ rainfall ever recorded in that
B IU During the time mentioned,
Klili fell to a depth of ten inches and
Bntveight hundredths. Houses
K U ph the city were flooded, and in a
Klier of business houses damages oc-
Kd owing to leaking roofs. The
■;,, Router office, in course of con-
Bttiun, was flooded from top to bot
■ All the editors and compositors
■tJiiven out.
I Arkansas.
■ 11.iir buttle occurred between
Emu.' officers nr 1 moonshiners, neai
Ek tv .rings, Montgomery county, on
Briiluv. Internal Revenue Collictor
Br, and pose, raided a moonshiners'
B p in the vicinity, destroying three
Biliiries. Shortly afterwards the
■. w;18 attacked from ambush by an
Bed band of moonshine rs. A regulat
Etc cn.-ued, in which Deputy United
■ s Marshal Tramnn II was killed.
■ Florida.
Bine th' usand crates of vegetables
B shipped from Ocoee Station thiß
Ban.
Bagin.lia Bluff, at Pensacola, has been
■ltd upon as the place for the coming
Bnnpment, and the militia will be or-
Bed into camp July IS.
■ great many complaints are being
Be of bid management in the trans-
Bou "f mail fuatter, iu the state, par-
Blahy in the southern portion.
B'MI. Mir. (iitARB of Milton was
Edit a loaded njpt.er, it was aeci-
Bwiv and the ball passed
Hugh the \c_-/oi her little daughter,
■cling a serious wound.
■ S]ini,i-h man-of-war arrived off Key
Btl recently, and cruised around the
lit in hopes of catching a filibustering
■edition to Cuba, which it was re
led had been organized and equipped
Key West,
If. J. Ilandell, section master on the
Ikionville & Atlantic Railroad, caught,
■means of a cage, a large catamount near
B line of the railroad track at Sau
10. The animal, which seems very
Bous, was taken to Pablo and placed
I Wge.
■lie Plant Investment Company have
(chased a tract of 280 acres of land,
rated in Fairfield, and extending from
Vfamboldt property on the South, to
Wilsou & Hunting mill property on
•North, along the St. John's river.
Jilting a heavy thunderstorm, while
J. S. Collier was crossing his yard
Sumter, a flash of lightning struck a
t near by, leaped to an umbrella he
• carrying on his shoulder, passed
*n his body, tearing the clothing from
pe'son, and rendering him uncon
“s, in which condition he remained
several days.
l.riauiH.
Incit distilleries were destroyed re
tlf in Murray, White, Clay and Ran
?h counties.
Columbus ifc AVestern Railroad
"*l*llß to Birmingham, Ala., lias jußt
t> completed.
Flic Farmers' Alliance of Georgia met
Atlanta, and wire several days in se
tsession, and declined to give the rc
,ltrs any information. Rumor has it
Its state exchange w ith a capital of
'WO,01)0 will be started.
Bi'kup \\. J Quines, of the A. M. E.
Urc !'i filed a complaint against the
Railroad, with the Railroad
'"Mission, for the ejectment of his
ttc from the Georgia Railroad train
,( -‘tal weeks ago. He also complains
11 the ears furnished the colored peo
! by the Georgia Road are not equal to
11 class cava.
■J-W'lroad wreck occurred Wednesday
>rning on the Savannah, Florida &
‘fiern Railroad at the trestle over the
"fiucknee River, five miles from
atunsville. Freight train No. 25,
toting of four cars and the caboose,
just crossed the river when about 400
"fh' trestle gave way, precipitat
? the entire train, except the engine,
'“"ground, twenty feet below. For-.
I "my, there were but four people on
, fain. The conductor unci a negro
Mian were seriously injured.
South Carolina.
* colored boy mimed Leak, about six
liiv.-T* °l<l, was drowned in Lynch’s
H "'.Lancaster county, on Wednesday.
K . t,letl to swim the stream, hut his
In', ?' 1 "ave out, and he was dead be
“eip could reach him.
|„l rs ' M°Uie E. Keese, the Anderson
!o ’ c lar K e| l with house burning, tried
ti r v" 1 ®' 1 suicide on Wednesday by
5r ln 6 herself in a stream. She was
>% rescued. The impression is
; 'Wk l” lhat *he is insane, though some
Um|, 11 7 'Asperate act due to depression
Mi,,,!’’ ortnne persecution. The
ai,’i j“" r y examination of the charge
%'uts resulted in her exonera
; “ an discharge.
Arittt Virginia.
[of place in the congregation
■•it i ,ly near Glen Easton
ta)! v it" Mothers, named Waitt, were fa
ithiJI JUr , ’ nn d many others were
~“ bed and shot.
absence of their father and
. lehn. n et D . es day, Grant and Garfield
leai, o ,’ „ tw ‘ B brothers, aged eight,
4 L r rt 'Ufricksburg, got possession
Unis ““ d Grant discharged its con
stantly' -"utiekVs body, killing him in
Murjr'n ml
The Pikcsville arsenal Inis boen trims
ferred into a Confederate soldiers’ home.
The formal opening of the home look
place tin Wednesday. The stand was
decorated with the nutioual colors and
porlruita of Jefferson Davis, Robert K.
Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, Addresses
were make by United States Senators
Hampton, of South Carolina; Vance of
Nortn Carolina; Daniel, ol Virginia;
Blackburn, of Kentucky; Beck, of Ken
tucky; Vest, of Missouri, uud J.
Proctor Knott, of Kentucky. Judge
George William Brown presided.
Dr. C. P. E/.zell, wbo was one of the
colony of Southerners, who left the Uni
ted States for Brazil, at the close of the
War, has arrived in Baltimore, accompa
nied by bis family. The early days of
the colony promised well, us cotton was
lurgely produced and good prices were
obuiiucd. This lasted for several years,
but for some unaccountable cause of late,
crops liuvo degenerated and low prices
have prevailed. Now the colony are
turning their attention to raising sugar
cane. Ihe colony is not prosperous, and
many would return to America if they
could raise the fntane.
Kentucky.
The Pullman Pulace Car company has
bought the good-will of the Baltimore &
Ohio Palace Car company for $1,500,000,
anil will commence at once to run Pull
man palace cars over t e Baltimore tfe
Ohio system from Louisville.
AlfNftoiirl.
The prohibitionists won a victory in
the election held at Independence.
A loss of SIOO,OOO was sustained by a
fire in 'he lumber district of St. Louis
on Thursday.
Officer Mwrty C. Murphy, of St. Louis,
was shot and fatally wounded about mid
night on Wednesday by a negro roust
about named Frank Parker.
Hon. John M. Lover, member of Con
gress for the Bth Missouri district, lias
filed suit for $50,000 against the Globe-
Democrat, of St. Louis, for libel.
North < nrolinii
At Henderson, on Thursday, Mrs. Julia
Moore was run over and killed by a train.
She was on the Oxf rd and Northern
track for safety from another train.
When the incoming train whistled she
became frightened and fell. Both legs
were cut oil near the body, aud she died
soon after.
Tennessee*
Some rascal with a diamond ring lias
di.-figured the principal plate glass win
dows of Chattanooga.
The people of Hawkins county are
stirred up over the conduct of a Metho
dist evangelist, Itev. Wm. Winfrey. He
has been charged with forging the
names of prominent citizens to notes for
large sums of money, and then discount
ing the notes.
The Cumberland Iron AVorks property
at Dover has been sold to Northern capi
talists. The property consists of about
46.0U0 acres of land, sexerai hundred
acres lying on the Cumberland River,
which are considered the best farming
lauds in the county. The consideration
paid was something over $200,0U0.
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
A tabulated statement which forms a
part of the report of the Baltimore, Md.,
Manufacturer s’ Record shows 2,020 new
enterprises in the South for tlie first six
months of. 1888, against 1,857 for the
corresponding time last year, 812 for the
corresponding time of 1886. The amount
of capital and capital stock represented
by the list of new enterprises and en
largement of old plants, for the first six
months of 1888 were; Alabama, $14,-
940,000; Arkansas, $4,976,000; Florida,
$2,030,000; Georgia, $5,792,000; Ken
tucky, $13,144,000; Louisiana, $1,776,-
000; Maryland, $.100,0u0; Mississippi,
$837,000; North Carolina, $3,999,000;
South Carolina, $3,133,000; Tennessee,
$6,025,000; Texas, $11,749,000; Vir
ginia, $5,905,000; West Virginia, $3,-
993,000; total, $81,508,000. Referring
to many new furnaces now going into
blast in tlie South, the report says the
production of pig iron alone in Alabama
next year will greatly exceed in value
the entire value of all manufactures in
the state in 1880. In 1880 the value of
manufactured products of Alabama
was $13,000,000 and the value of agri
cultural products $50,000,000, or consid
erably more than four times as great. In
1889 the value of products of manufac
turing and mining interests of that
state will exceed the average yearly value
of all agricultural products. Moreover,
manufacturing apd mining products will
next year furnish fifty times ns much
freight to the railroads as the cotton of
tlie strife. __
THE ©RAND OLD MAN,
Iu the House of Commons, on Tuesday,
the debate was resumed on -Mr. Morley s
motion censuring the government for its
administration of tho Irish crimes act.
William O’Brien, nationalist, held that
the plan of campaign never really troub
led the people,and that they approved it.
After two years of operation of the plan
of campaign, there were 280 evicted ten
ants out of more than 00,000 who had
fought and won under the plan of cam
paig • He could further state that every
one°of tiled 280 tenants were in a com
fortable home to-day, and every man
would yet come back to his home in
triumph. Henry Chaplain (conservative)
said he did not wonder that Mr. O’Brien
hates to hear about the disgusting inci
dents that had attended the league s op
pression of the people who were now
more responsible for the sufferings of the
people under the league than certain
English politicians who only a few years
ago were the worst foes of the league.
Mr. Gladstone, who, upon rising, was
received with cheers, suid that however
much he was afflicted with loss of mem
ory, through the infirmities of age, he
hoped, for the time being at any rate
that he would remain able to cope
with antagonists of the caibre of
Mr fhonlain. What was more signifi
cant about the state of Ireland than the
fact Hat nineteen of the eighty six
uationaU-t members had been sent to
prison. The censure motion was re
jected by 36 to 273.
feathered HIS nest.
e Piteher of the Union bank
Defau „r r arrived at Mon
0f Providence, R L, ? tered nt the St.
feat, Cana<Ja \ ““J A g ßoberts of Fall
Lawrence hotel as l . arregted . The
R ‘ Ver ’ Sbought a ticket by the Allen
prisoner had bong next mo rmng
line and inttn takcn to his room
for England. 1 j Rellert states
“v-h ***** .o
$700,000 were found on him.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WHAT THE SWELTERING PUB
LIC OFFICIALS ARE DOING.
(MtOCBEDINOS OK OOHQIIESS—IMPORTANT
ACTS OK PRESIDENT CLEVELAND —AP-
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS, ETC.
conouessiunaL
In the Senate, on Thursday, Mr. Davis,
from the pension committee, reported
back eight vetoed pension bills
with tire recommendation that they
be passed, notwithstanding the Presi
dent's objections, and they were placed
on the calendar. A motion to have the
reports printed in the Record was agreed
to; and a motion to print 3,000 copies of
the reports was referred to the committee
on printing, Mr. Faulkner stating that
tlie Democratic members of the commit
tee on pensions had not seen them Mr.
Allison reported the army appropriation
bill. Further consideration of the fish
ery treaty and of Mr. Morgan’s resolution
thereupon was postponed till Monday
next. The Senate then at 12.30 resumed
consideration of the river and harbor
appropriation bill, the question being on
the amendment appropriating SIO,OOO for
Yadkin River, North Carolina. Tire
amendment was agreed to—yeas 30, nays
8. Among the amendments reported and
agreed to were the following: Increas
ing the appropriation for Salkehatchee
River, South Carolina, from $3,c00 to
$8,000; reducing the appropriation for
Waccumaw River, North and South
Carolina, from $15,000 to $10,000; in
creasing the appropriation for Wappoo
Cut, South Carolina, from $3,000 to
$5,000; reducing the appropriation for
Ocmulgee River, Georgia, from SII,OOO
to $7,500, and for the Oconee River,
Georgia, from SII,OOO to $7,500, and for
the Oconee River, Georgia, fiom $12,-
500 to $10,000; inserting an item of
$4,000 for completing the work at Rom
ley Marsh, Georgia; increasing the
appropriation for Caloosahntchie River,
Florida, from $4,000 to SIO,OOO, and
for the Tombigbee River, Alabama,
(from Fulton to Vienna), from $0,500 to
$12,000; reducing the appropriation for
the Bla k Warrior River, Alabama, from
SIOO,OOO to $50,000; striking out items
for the Tombigbee River, Alabama, from
Walker’s bridge to Fulton, $4,000; for
Yallabusha River, Mississippi, $3,000;
for Cassity Bayou, Mississippi, $2,500.
The river and harbor appropriation bill
was laid aside after 57 of its 74 pages
had been disposed of. Mr. Hale, of
Maine, presented anew plan to the Sen
ate by which the surplus could be dis
posed of. The plan is to use it in “mak
ing available and cultivating the govern
ment land, giving the people out of em
ployment an opportunity to work thereon
at reasonable wages. Such lands, after
being brought into cultivation, to be
parcelled off into farms of forty acres
each, to b: provided with a suitable
farm house aud to be lit or sold on easy
terms to the laborers employed.”....
Iu the House, on motion of Mr. Mills, of
Texas, Mr. Blount, of Georgia, was elect
ed speaker pro tem. during the tempora
ry absence of Speaker Carlisle, and the
clerk was directed to inform the Senate
of this action. The House went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Springer,
of Illinois, in the chair), on the tariff
bill. Committee amendments were
agreed to, strikin'? from the free list hat
ters’ furs not on the skin and lime or
flax seed; marble of all kinds, and plas
ter of paris, when ground or calcined.
The committee then rose. Mr. Belmont
called up the conference report on the
consular and diplomatic bill and it was
agreed to. It reports concurrence on all
the amendments except the appropria
tion of $25,000 for a commission to ex- .
plore the Congo basin.
In the Senate, the following House
bills were reported and placed on the
calendar: authorizing the construction of
railroad bridges across Oconee river,
Georgia; the Flint river, Georgia; Ten
nessee river, at Lamb’s ferry, Alabama;
Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama;
Ocmulgee river, in Georgia. The Sen
ate then took tip the river aud harbor ap
propriation bill. An amendment strik
ing out au item of sloo,ooo.f.ir improv
ing Winyaw bay, Georgetown, S. C.,
and inserting in lieu a provision for the
board of army engineers to examine
Capt. Bixby’s plan for improvement was
discussed at some leugth. The result
was that the appropriation was
retained and the provision was also
inserted, Among other amendments
agreed to were the following: Increased
appropriation for Savannah harbor, Geor
gia, from $90,000 to $200,000, and in
serting the words “On the project for
securing a channel twenty-eight feet
deep at mean high wator from Savannah
to the sea.” Increasing the appropria
tion for Tampa from $20,-
000 to $350,000 (amended, on motion of
Mr. Friar, so as to make it include a
channel to Tumpa). The amendment
striking out the appropriation of $35,-
000 for St. Augustine, Florida, anil in-
sorting in lieu of it a proposition for tho
appointment of a hoard of army engineer
umcers tu examino T-ioufc. Cliirk’a plnn of
improvement was opposed by Senators
Call Pasco and Reagan. The result was
(as in case of Winyaw bay) the retention
of the appropriation. Other amendments
were agreed to as follows: Increas
ing appropriations to complete the im
provement of Cape Fear river below
Wilmington, N. C„ SIOO,OOO to $245,-
000' increasing appropriation for Para
lico’and Tar rivers, (from the mouths to
falls at Rocky Mount, N. C.\ from
*5 000 to SIO,OOO, and of Roanoke river,
N O from its mouth to Clarksville,
Virginia, from $5,000 to $4,000; insert
ing'hn item of $5,000 for Lumber river,
N C. Au amendment inserting an item
of SIO,OOO for Yadkin river, N. C., wat
the subject of a long discussion, th<
amendment being opposed by Mr. Ed
munds and advocated by Mr. Ransom,
but no definite action was reached.
The House resumed consideration of
the public land bill, the ayes and noes
bein''- taken on Mr. Holman’s amendment
retaining title in the government to coal
mines found on public lands, but allowing
entrymen to mine such eoal deposits un
til Congress acts further in the matter.
The amendment was adopted, and tho
hill was then passed. On motion of Mr.
Scott of Pennsylv nin, a resolution war
passed granting leave to government
employes who hid participated in tin
battle ot Gettysburg to attend the anni
versary of that battle. Mr. Mills called
up the tariff bill, and a heated debate
took place as to the time when the hill
should be reported hack to the House for
action by the committee pf the whole,
but no conclusion was arrived at.
UUBSIP.
Senator Brown offered to the Sundry
JfT COUNTRY MAY tillK RVRR BR RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTIiY."-Jeffermn
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 5. 1888.
Civil bill an amendment appropriatin' I 1 or limn* hack, si>l< ft OVI I R
$20,000, to lie expended under the and, Poronr PluMcra. PricO J #
rcction of the Secretary of War by Vf L- .
ing. constructing and ' 0 F FACTS BY
tesmn well at the L lilted btatk ~ . 3 -r, 0 t>it
at Summerville, Ga. ?..*sLEGRAPH.
Poßtma*tcr-General Dicker Aril.
Thursday ordered the removal LIC OF* .inventions, hail
piiatofficr inspectors in hail- * 'koplh, capitalists,
the country. This was minin’ situki ’ ' l heads, etc.
by the reduced appropriating,m s A, ’ ITA, ' ,SIW| Ai rs ok J
service for the Ibcal year begn..,i *fes, etc. , .
Ist. About ten others will h-* i went on the war
shortly. ‘cted president ‘2 on ““‘l butchered
~-' . ~ , .... ith -
Gen. Sheridan s condition, .. I On Thur* a , . n
favorable. The weather ha? ,eI U the business , t ., c | t i m V S e occurred ftt ? el
and is considerably cooler. Tuesday. ‘ .iou moi'r i, mCU *
On this account the gcnetal’s list still contin- l tie course ~ „
for Massachusetts Bnv has beeftd beef ratf •' w.-M-vu-As, was visited by a flood,
poned. The U. b. S.'Swutara is at > \ofst since 1880, and 10,000 acres in
navy yard awulting a favorable at u 'asput under water,
ity to move Gen. Sheridan. ~,4 . p sw ord ig, a terrible thunder storm at
Two boxes of mammoth X’’. ”-r year ' v eb., two men named Foster
were hoisted into the capitol o , ’ itil'S i JM ’ " cru killed by light-
Dne contained a statue of Rich ° | rans l s ,ructed \ \y
ton, of New Jersey, who was off 0 '.ommissiouer l ,; ' ”, of Germany, said to the
-igners of the Declaration o f J ' , '* l )prcss Satur- 'day sie bai authorities: “Make it
deuce, and the other a statsirabligur square, ,a, to see that more churches
Ehil Kearney. These statuc*ir e c Tin
New Jerseys contribution t° that the re- i°g 6f.j men, named Rislee aud
hail of the capitol. * fishops, whid, City Marshal William
pppiibi -...-.wtioDscWd by “ f war Deputy Martin, at Chete-
REPUBLICAN CANDID se( j an j jj 3 . & PPTOwere taken from jail and
——- 1 , teir
Gen. Ben ITarrison, chi, „ „
the Republican National ConvemvOmpany will /or Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa.,
President, wus born at North Benfho new ‘ r, d to the police of Chicago, 111.,
Ohio, near Cincinnati, August 20, 18ii‘ h s pocket was picked of $1,200
and is nearly fifty-five years of age. attending the recent convention.
was graduated at Miami University, Ox
ford, Ohio, in 1832, aud two yems after
ward, having taken the couise in the
Cincinnati Law College, lie removed to
Indianapolis and embarked in the prac
tice of his profession. In 1861 he vas
elected by the people of Indiana, report
er of tho decisions of the supreme court.
In July, 1861, he raised a company fur
the 7th Indiana infantry, and on the
completion of the regimental organiza
tion became its colonel, lie was bre
vetted brigadier gem rid for gallant con
duct. Iu 1864 lie was re-elected, while
absent in the field, to tlie office of su
preme court reporter, and on his return
in 1865 assumed the position and Berved
four years. Iu 1876 he was the Republi
can candidate for governor of Indiana,
and was defeated by “Blue Jeans” Wil
liams. Subsequently, he served two years
as member of the Mississippi River
commission, and on March 4, 1881, took
his seat in the United States Senate as
successor to Hon. Joseph E. McDonald,
rerving until March 4, 1887, when he was
succeeded by Hon. David Turpie. Gen.
Harrison is a grandson of Gen. Wm.
Henry Harrison, who was the whig cun
didate for the presidency in 1836, and
again in 1840, and wns elected in the
latter year over Van Buren, Democrat.
Levi Parsons Morton, of New York City,
who was nominated for Vice President,
was born at Shore-ham, Vt., May 16.
1824, hence is now sixty-four years of
age. He received a public school anil
acitdeinic education, lie commenced
mercantile business at Hanover, N. 11.,
in 1845; in 1850 lie removed to Boston,
but remained there only four
years, aud finally drifted to New York,
reaching there in 1854; he remained there
in vaiious pursuits until 1803, when he
engaged in the banking business, his op
erations being conducted both in New
York and Loudon. Iu 1878 he was 'ap
pointed by President Hayes honorary
commissioner to the Paris exhibition. In
1880 lie was elected to the Forty-sixth
Congress, but before he had served a
year was appointed minister to France
by President Garfield, and retained the
position under Arthur, remaining there
until relieved by Robert M. McLean,
President „ Cleveland’s appointee. In
1887 Morton was a candidate for the
United States Senate aud was defeated
by Prank Hiscock.
DISARMING EVERYBODY
Intelligence from the Indian Territory
is to the effect that the Chickasaw In
dian police, aided by a deputy United
States marshal, are relieving everybody
they find who is carrying a pistol contra
ry to laws. A train was raided on Thurs
day and tlie searchers were rewarded
with about a wagon load of six-shooters,
which they took from different individ
uals. Certain persons were searched
on a Santa Fe train, bound for Kansas
City, while passing through Chickasaw
nation, and relieved of their piatoJouJi,.
This is a procautionary step in whav yhose
regarded as the inevitable war wPa nui
muy break out at any day betweesupreme
Chickasaw militia and non-citizi super
nocount of the refutal to pay sti>3 traffic,
by the latter. drought to
— ~ ed tor eon-
A Western Ex-Mayor In Rui. f .he illegal
—
Ex-Mayor John Blaok was on Cs U p aa( -
for the first time since his return v ,y, j t t ) lul
Europe, and was tho centre of a fa - '-„
of acquaintances most of the nof, t can j
as lie told of his travels in the | ‘‘B
Laud. “We had a nice trip,” said he,“44
“and everything went smoothly except f
an incident at Moscow. Moscow is a j
fine city, with 500 Catholic churches amm
not a Rclioolhou.se. I went rnty, West
Monday morning, ami notice** ravaged,
principal streets a number of ats sunk,
women lying drunk. I did nu-e been do
and audibly expressed tho opimd by th*
such a thing Would not l>o to .000,000, a
any other city on tho face of : ‘ds upon the
and that a nation that wouhlH.pougahela,
a disgraceful exhibition onr so |yis, Bar
swept from the face of the cart, )o |p West
body explained to me that the are
fore was a great feast day and a JVashjng
and that in the eye of law worn® Greene,
get drunk on these occasion lascl Wash
falling uuder royal displeasilr y L . ;i -,,
next morning the Chief of Po!ic., lm | j'co..
to my room, aud said that he hat il,
instructed by the Government to fcV ! „
me for seditious utterances. I told hiui
that he couldn’t arrest me; that 1 was an
American citizen, and could show my
passport. As ho seemed to appreciate
the force of my reasoning, I ordered up
a bottle of champagne, which he and his
men drank. When he was going away
he asked mo what report ho should
make to the government on the case,
and when I told him to toll thorn to go to
blazes, he went away apparently pleas
ed.” Mr. Blaok says that he saw no
country in liis travels equal to the
United States. — Milwaukee Witc&Min.
Giving Up ft Career.
“I mgoiiT to be a soldier, mri, when
I grow up,” said Bobby, as he crawled
into bed, “and fight in wars and bat
tles. ”
“All right, Bobby; now goto sleep.
In the morning she shook him for the
fourth time and said:
“Bobby, you must get up; the idea
of a soldier lying abed at this hour!”
“Well, ma,” said Bobby sleepily, “l’ vo
changed my mind about being a sol
dier.”—A'eie York tiun.
The North German Lloyds steamer,
Werra, Capt. Bussius, which ia led from
Bremen June 23, for New York, is re
ported at London us stranded at Dungo
ness.
The French ministerial council decided
that it would be impolitic to rescind the
decree of expulsion against Due lie
Aumule, as requested by the French in
stitute.
News lias just been received in Lon
don, England, that a vessel, supposed to
have been an emigrant ship, foundered
in a storm off the Cape of Good Hope.
All hands were lost.
Fire at Fort Apache, in Arizona Ter
ritory, destroyed i he entire quartermaster
anil commissary supplies. The estimate
of the loss to the government, including
buildings, is SIOO,OOO.
A boiler explosion occurred at Hague’s
mill, twenty miles West of Effingham,
111. Engineer Kane and an employe
named Lobe, were killed, and a large
number of employes were badly injured.
The boiler was blown 300 feet.
News from Berlin states that a speech
from the throne in the Prussian diet will
recognize the equality before the law of all
religious creeds. Tlie Polish members
intend to move an amendment demand
ing the preservation of their historical
rights.
United States officers on Wednesday
iitA,- in arresting near Wilkesbarre,
Pa., Wilson Kline, alias Henry Smith,
and Charles Belies. These men are said
to have been connected with the robbery
of about seventy small postoffices
throughout the country.
The town of Sundsvall, on the gulf of
Bothnia, center of the timber trade of
Sweden, has been almost destroyed by
fire. The town of Umea, on the gulf of
Bothnia, has also been partly burned.
The damage at Sundsvall and Umea will
reach $5,000,000.
A wreck occurred on the Pennsylvania
& Schullkill Yailcy Railroad at Cable
City, Pa., by which six laborers were
killed and four fatally injured. The
mimes of the unfortunates were unknown.
They were Hungarians, and known only
by numbers,
New9 comes from Syracuse, N. Y.,
that Wallace Mitchell pleaded guilty to
murdering Oscar Johnson, and was re
manded to jail, to be tried in September.
A mob broke into the jail, took the pris
oner to the spot whero ho committed the
murder and hung him.
Theodore C. Harmer left Kingsley,
Mich., for his farm, with tlio price of a
team of horses in his pocket. Three
brothers named Drosk attempted to rob
him, but the farmer killed one, fatally
injured a second and wounded the third
ono, who escaped.
Sidney Howaid Gay, of tlie New
York Post died in New York. He was a
journalist of extended reputation, and
ad edited a number of the leading
'repapers of this country, and to Ins
Sis were intrusted the task of com
giUT the unfinished works of William
ijnjßryaut.
at tb & Wilson, contractors at Mar
conti¥’ discharged Louis Nicoli, a
trust sr ter . f° r drunkenness. That
d en( . (coli appeared at the works and
Stundntractor M. B. Wilson in the
p ro l,,ilh a probably fatal result. He
t W( valked homo, and placing tlie muz
tlyJ the revolver in his own mouth,
“toilet into his head.
fjjJMJpntch from the City of Mexico
iys: On Monday the elections for elec
>rs, who are to choose a president nnd
lumbers uf CK-mgress a week from next
ioji-lay, were held throughout the couu
f ' j-'lierc was little animation as far as
huT i i an( l 110 opposition worth men
miis net u mz an q the ticket of
Chinese.... ,
„ aistration party.
Senat
a bill di~ '
dojiartiiieDriving a Bargain.
ture, UcF -——
secretaryptitude of the female mind (in
to prepanoes, wo mean) to take a eom
ginia exe view of a business transac
mond marvellous. At a dry goods
! Twexm this city a woman recently
priatectf some sort of trimming, which
j hibit. not attempt to describe because
aid not. She was told that the
I vicof >® nta ' n ‘"B teu would cost
‘ ‘ 5956 tents. Tlien a conversation some
tninp Jiko the following ensued:
. Customer—Oh, I don't want a whole
pieco. How much is it by the yard?
Saleswoman —Wo have to charge 5
cents a yard when we cut it.
C.— l-'ive cents? Well, I guess seven
yards will be enough. [Here the stuff
is measured. ]
B.—Thirty-five cents, pleaso.
(J.—How much is there left?
B.—Three yards.
C. (presumably mentally wreckoning
that teu times five are fifty) —How much
for the whole ten yards?
S. (demurely, hut with au eye to bus
iness) —Oil, you could have the ten
yards for 45 cents.
O.—-Very well. I guess I’ll take ten
yards. [Planks down 45 cents and de
parts satisfied.] — A’eieberyporl Herald.
An Easy Explanation.
“Flossie,” said her mamma, “why do
you keep up such a constant chatter,
chatter, all the time ?”
“’Tause I’ve got lots to say,” ex
plained Flossie.— Kpoeh.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Then and Now—An Infallible Sinn—
A Man of Ability—Homeward
Bound—A Summer Day’s
Idyl, Ete., Etc.
Ho wns a man of some account,
Anti welt among his neighbors stood:
For any reasonable amount
His mime was good.
He took to drink, anil soon his nose
Assumed a tint as red as blood
And now. as fur as credit goes,
His name is Mud.
—Boston Courier.
An Infallible Sign.
“Mamma,” said the sweet, small boy
before admiring friends. “I knew ns
soon as I came in there was folks visit
ing here.”
“Did you, darling?” said the fond
mother, trying to wilt him with her eye;
“howdid you know?”
“Oh, you had your company voice
on.” —Detroit Free I‘rett.
A Man of Ability.
“ Do you know if Brown is a man of
ability, Dumley
“ I don’t know anything about Brown
or his ability either, anil don’t want to
know. He refused to lend me twenty
five dollars six months ago, and I havn’t
noticed him since.”
“He seems to be a man of financial
ability, Dumley.'’— Epoch.
Homeward Round.
Purser (making “dinner talk”—“Glad
you made up your mind to come back
with us, Mr. Venu. Did you go every
where you intended?
Pa Venu—“Yep; didn't miss nothin’.
Went all through Italy, ’n' all over.”
I’urser—“You spent some days at
Venice, of course?”
l a Venu—“Nop. Meant to, but when
we got tliar, ther’ was a flood or some
thin’ and the hull place was under water.
Everybody goin’ round in boats. So we
cleared right out.”
Ma Venu—“We was so disappointed !
Inter- Ocean.
A Summer Idyl.
When the summer sun is shining, and
the tendrils green are twining, aud the
southern bree/.e is gentlo as the voices
in a dream, then the man, for pleasure
wishing, takes his pole and goes off
fishing, to some cool, sequestered valley,
where disports the gladsome stream.
On the bank he sits and fishes, breath
ing blue, corrossive wishes that he never
had been guiltycf a trip so void of glee;
and the bank where he's abiding, sud
denly goes downward sliding, and the
streamlet bears him gently down, toward
the sullcD sea. When he reaches shore
and scrambles, through the waste of
thorn and brambles, there are solemn
voiced mosquitoes, hungry for his
princely blood; there are wasps and
things to fight him, there are rattle
snakes to bite him, till he gives a howl
of frenzy, and starts homeward through
the mud.
Concluded He Was Mistaken.
“Miss Kacktus,” said the young man
at the Arizona hall, casually resting his
hand on the butt end of his six-shooter.
“I believe the next waltz is mine, isn’t
it?”
“I think you arc mistaken, Mr.
Roundup,” said another young man who
was standing by, as he pointed in a care
less, easy manner at Miss Kacktus’s card
with a bowie knife eighteen inches long;
“my name is down for that waltz.”
“You are right, Mr. Lariat,” rejoined
Mr. Roundup, with his eyes on the glit
tering blade. Chieaqo Tiibune.
Tommy's Remarkable Standing.
Pa—“ Tommy, how do you stand in
your class?”
Tommy—“l’m the sixteenth, pa.”
“You lazy little rascal!”
A few days later pa asks Tommy
again:
“How do you stand now in your class?
Have you gone up any?"
“I’m the seventeenth?”
“Why the other day you told me you
were the sixteenth.”
“Y'es, but anew boy was put in the
class yesterday.”— Texas Siftings.
A Queer Dish.
Two gentlemen who had come into a
restaurant one day, had scarcely seated
themselves at the table when a waiter
rushed up and asked, “What shall I
bring you, gentlemen?”
“(>h dear,” said one of the gentlemen
impatiently, give us a little respite!”
“All right!” said the waiter, and dis
appeared.
They had been looking over the bill
of fare about five minutes, and were
waiting rather anxiously for the waiter
to return and take their order, when he
came up suddenly, as if in breathless
haste.
j, gentlemen, ' saw Uc, wt, m.
respite is all out!” —New York News.
Could Think So. '
Two men on a railway train began to
discuss a book which the newsboy had
left on the seat.
“1 think it is a very weak thing,' 1
said one of them. “I examined it awhile
ago, and I see that the characters are
weak and ill drawn.’’
“I like it very much,” the other man
replied. “I think it is one of the finest
pieces of fiction ever produced in this
country.”
“I don’t see how ysu can think
that.” . ,
“I do, for, you see, I wrote it.” — Ar
kansas Traveler,
The Manager's Speech.
It was in a Washington theatre one
night and an opera company was play
ing. One of the singers was taken ill,
and it was necessary to notify the audi
ence of the change of cast. The manager
elected to do it. “The fellows will hear
a speech to-night,” he said. “These
things arc always made wdiculous and
silly, but I’ll show you how to speak to
an audience.”
He wont out before the curtain. The
audience gave him a reception and then
waited for his speech.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” he began,
“Washington has always been the home
and centre of all that is artistic. Music
has been more carefully nurtured here
than anywhere in the world, and the
best and greatest of oper—”
At this point a voice in the gallery
called out “Hats!” The manager stopped,
looking blandly at the audience.
“Mr. Smith is sick this evening, and
Mr. Clark will sing in his place.”
Then he bowed and walked off. Ho
did not comment on the speech to the
listening crowd behind the scenes.
Working In the Dark.
“Ma and I,” she said, shyly, “arc mors
like Bisters Ilian mother and daughter.”
“Yes?” he said, with a lingering in
flection on the afterguard of the “yes”
which rose clear to the ceiling.
“Yes, indeed,” said the girl, the rosy
flush onhereheeks making her infinitely
more beautiful than ever. “Ma nnd 1
are inseparab’es. Wo have never been
separated a single day since I was a lit
tle baby.”
“N-no?” he said, this time with an in
flection on the second section of no that
went only half way to the ceiling anil
back again.
“Oh, dear, no,” the girl went on, in
her artless way, “and ma and 1 always
said that when I was married she was
going to love my husband like her own
son, and come and keep house for us,”
“Oh-h!” William said, with a circum
flex. Then he rose up slowly anil firmly
and said that he had a note in bank to
take up at 3 o’clock, and as it wns now
11:80, he would go. And he did go.
And he didn’t come back again. Nut
never. And ma said to the girl:
“That’s where you mUscd it in not
fully trusting yourmother. Why didn't
you tell me that man had been married
before? Had I known he was a widower,
I would have played the ‘Home for Old
Women’ racket on him.”— Burdette.
Lore's Gabor Lost.
“Now, George, dear,” said a fond lit
tle Newark wife to her husband of a
year the other day, “this is your birth
day, isn’t it ? You see I didn’t forget if
you did, and I’ve been working dread
fully hard for tour months to get a sur
prise for you, and Pm going to give you
something that’s all my own work.”
She drew hack a silken scarf as she
spoke and George saw before him a large
oil painting in a frame that he knew he
would have to pay at least $25 for when
the bill came in.
“Now, my dear,” she said gleefully,
“aren’t you surprised ? Didn’t know I
could paint, did you ? I couldn’t four
months ngo, but I painted every bit of
thnt picture myself.”
“You did ?’’ said George, “well, I am
surprised. How perfectly natural those
cows are.”
“Cows? Why, George, those are
horses.”
“Oh, so they are; I wasn’t looking
closely, I was so taken up with the
natural look this old stump has.”
“That stump! Why, my dear hus
band, that's a man.”
“Oh, of course it is. I see it plain
enough now, and I suppose that is his
little dog running by h:s side. Looks
wonderfully like our little Fido.”
“George, it isn’t a dog; it’s a little
boy I”
“Why, I—l—the picture isn't in a
good light, is it? Let s move it around
a little. There; that’s better. You have
succeeded wonderfully with that moun
tain in the distance.”
“George, where are your eyes? That
isn’t a mountain—it’s a liay stack.”
“So it is. What am I thinking of?
I’ve been lookivi; all the time at that
pretty rustic br .di-e.”
“There's no bridge in the picture.
You must mean that rail fence.”
“No, surely not. What is the matter
with this light? See, now it is a fence,
and there’s a white cow lying down
on ”
“George Jenkins, that white cow lying
down is a lady in a white dress sitting
on a fallen log. You’re making fun of
the picture and ”
“No, no, my dear, I——l ”
“You’re just as mean as you ”
“Now, now, dearie, I 1 ”
“You’re horrid; you just are! I’ll
never paint another picture as long as I
live. 1 never will.”— I) trail l’ree Press.
Imliun l’liysic.
A complete catalogue of the contents
of a single medicine bag wcjld excite
the reader’s wonder and provoke a smile.
There were dried herbs in ijuantity,
leaves, barks, roots and stems. Here a
claw, there a tooth, yonder an ear. One
package contained a beak and a feather,
another a human nail. Our search
brought to light small images of wood
carefully wrapped and labeled. These
were the totems that preside overtire use
and effect of the medicines, and without
their presence in the pouches the skill of
the Indian doctors would avail nothing.
The initiation into the fraternity of
medicine men differs, as do the schools
they profess to practice. In the far
north the candidate is compelled to de
vour, alive, a young dog, while the as
sembled crowd dance around him. In
other instances physical torture alone can
lift one to the dignified position of med
icine man, and some enthusiastic aspir
ants have been known to endure excru
ciating pain for days in succession.
As to the cures performed by the In
dian doctor, some of them belong to the
catalogue of the remnrkable. They fail
ofteuer than they cure, which shows that
their knowledge of the healing art is
limited. They will gorge a patient with
food when nothing at ail should be
taken into the stomach, and will place
one in the sweat tent when common
sense ought to teach them that such a
prescription means speedy death. I
have known - yvnw.
wow over a sick child when the mother
begged him to administer a simple rem
edy which would have brought relief.
The mortality among Indian children is
largely increased by the foolish incanta
tions of the lauded medicine men.—
Drake's Magazine. __
A Dog Rescues His Mistress.
Mine. Burnot, an elderly Parisian
bourgeoise, has good reason to be grate
ful to her Newfoundland dog Phoebus.
She was preparing her soup when she
suddenly felt herself seized from behind,
and five fingers were planted on her
throat. She had been attacked by the
son of her concierge, a big, hulking
scoundrel, who had deserted from the
army after having robbed one of his olli
cers, and was living with his parents in
Paris, -lust as the would-be murderer,
who was on the lookout for plunder,
pulled out his pocket-handkerchief for
the purpose of gagging his victim, the
dog Phoebus sprang at him and made
him relax his grip of the woman. The
scoundrel was frightened by the animal
and ran away, but was captured by the
police outside the house, lie has been
sentenced at the assizes to eight years’
penal servitude. — London Telegraph.
Prince Bismarck’s Wife.
Prince Bismarck’s wife is said to be si
typical “hausfrau,” with never a thought
above petty domestic details. The
Crown Prince's wife is of the same
nature. In their eyes it is a little short
of infamous for the Empress to read
philosophy, advocate the higher educa
tion of women, and take an intelligent
interest in the affairs of the Empire and
ot the world. Yet her breadth of in
tellect and force of character have never
prevented the Empress from being a
model wife and a model mother. —New
| York Tribune.
ft UMBER 35.
THE LITTLE SCHOOL HOUSBL J
In the little white school houp Just under Os
hill ■
Half hid by the maplee, and eloee ID the mill
Whoso wido spreading branches attorJe |
sweet shade
As we listened to the music the old mill wheal
made
With its buzz and whirr, its clatter and din.
It marshaled us out, anil ushered us In. |
A pleasanter resting place could ne'er have
been found.
Than this roomy and airy old pleasure ground,
Th© swallows were nesting under the eavee,
And glimpses of sky shining blue through the
leaves.
Making picture so pleasing on memory’s wait
That the stoutest heart sot toils as those days
they recall.
The signal for entering now falls on the ear,
’Tis the old school bell ringing, iu tones loud
and clear.
To hasten the loiterer that lags by the way,
And bids the busy ones cease from their play,
Itefrain from their mischief, laughter and
fun,
Be earnest and studious, for school has begun.
On through the entrance that leads to the
room,
With never a sunbeam to lighten the gloom.
We enter the school room so narrow and low,
Through the wide open windows the summer
winds blow; * .
And the murmur of voices floats out on the
air, *
As they answer the roll call or join in the
prayer.
On the rough wooden benches, narrow and
low,
Are bright faces shining, with health’s ruddy
glow,
Over exercise poring some are earnest intent.
While an occasional urchin on mischief is
bent;
Fearing the penalty of being detained after
school,
Or committing to memory some unpleasant
rule.
We gaze at the old desks, grimy and black.
And a host of fond memories carry us back
To the bright days of childhood so happy and
E’er sorrow or trouble could drive them
away;
Reluctant to leave it, I pause on the sill,
Breathe a prayer for the school house just
under the hill.
—Good Housekeeping .
PITH APPOINT.
Military measures—Right foot, left
foot.
A headlong man is not a man with a
long head.
Only a question of time —A fast trot
ters record.
An “old stamping-ground”—The
Post-office.
The crow very rarely leaves a place
without caws.
Half a loaf would rever satisfy a
thorough loafer.
There is no such word as “fail" among
the fruit preservers. Their motto is:
“I can.”
Shakespeare wns not a broker; but
who else has furnished so many stock
quotations.
Real estate owners don’t like children,
but they nave no objection to pay rents.’
— Boston, Courier.
Station Cry: “Will you have a han
som, gentleman?” Pretty girl—sotto
voce: “I w-onder who’d want a homely
one?” — Philadelphia Call.
In the bright lexicon of youth there i*
no such word as fail, but later on, when
the youth gets into business for himself,
then the word shows up in good shape.
She (at the races) —“What’s tho
trouble at the judge’s stand, George?”
He—“ There is some dispute over the
last heat.” She—" Aren’t their thermo
meters all alike, George?”— Sijtings.
There was a young man in Japan,
Who wrote verses after this plan;
But the populace rose.
As you may suppose,
And they wiped out that wretched young
man.
— Courier-Journal.
A grandma with a small boy boarded
a car the other day, and the collector,
rang the indicator twice. “What's that
for?” she asked. “That’s two o’clock,”
answered the boy. In a minute or two
another passenger got on, and again tho
register rung. “Thcee o’clock 1" ex
claimed the old lady as she bobbed
around ou her seat. “My stars! but
how time does lly in the city!”— Neio
York News.
Grant’s Luck in Selling His Book. '
Leonard -Swett told an interesting
story the other day, illustrative of Gen-|
crai Grant’s traditional good luck, as
well as his lack of what is called shrewd-’
ness in commercial dealings. When
Grant was engaged in writing his me-!
moirs the Century Company, which had!
been publishing some of his war articles
in tho Century Magazine , offered him
810.000 for the manuscript of his book.!
Webster, me puci:_i— ~iso had his eye
on the alert for the forthcoming work,
and one day called on the general to in- 1 ,
quire about it. Grant was seated at his
desk, about to attach his signature to
the Century Company’s contract, which
lay before him. It, had apparently never
occurred to him to ask more for his lite
rary production. Webster intimated
that he would like to make an offer.
“If it would not be impertinent,” he
said, “I would like to inquire how much
the Century Company agrees to pay you ?”
“Ten thousand dollars,” General Grant
said.
“Then I wouldn’t sign the contract
just yet,” said Webster.
“Why not?”
“Because I will pay you $50,000.
General Grant opened his eyes with
amazement. It had not occurred to him
to set so high a value on his work; he
had not thought of dickering beyond
the first offer. But he did not sign the
contract.
Afterward Mark Twain, Webster’s
relative and business partner, called and
told the general that none of the publish
ers had offered him what his manuscript
was worth. “1 will give you SIOO,OOO
and a royalty, ”he said. So Webster &
Cos. became Grant’s publishers. The
firm has grown rich out of Grant’s book,
and Grant’s family has been paid over
$500,000.
“And Grant’s book,” said Mr. Swett,
in conclusion, “will become a classic
more valuable than Cesar’s Commenta
ries. I consider it the greatest achieve
ment of General Grant’s wonderful life
to have written such a work with death
looking over his shoulders.— Chicago
Times.
Chicago fruit dealers large
tracts of land in Sonijra, MCfflCfjJko en
gage in orange culture.'